Media Festival

19th Annual Graduate Student Conference and Media Festival
University of California, Riverside
Conference: April 13-14th, 2012
Media Festival: Evening of April 13th

Keynote Speaker:
Dr. Leo Braudy, Professor and Film Critic,
University of Southern California

Call for films, installation artwork, & other forms of media Submission deadline: February 17th, 2012
Email: disjunctions2012@gmail.com

For this year’s (dis)junctions conference, we are seeking films, installation artwork, and other forms of media for our media festival, which follows our conference’s theme of the construction and definition of the term “narrative” in all its mediated and mediating forms. The word narrative is typically associated with storytelling and plot, but for this year’s conference we want to understand “narrative” as any instance of producing meaning or “truth.” Further, in an attempt to be at once inclusive and provocative, we want to think about the way disciplines across the academy each work to construct particular narratives. Therefore, we are seeking participants for our media festival whose work broadly speaks to this theme and potentially grapples with the following questions: To what extent do narratives (in a broad sense of the term) reflect, challenge, or create a sense of both oneself and one’s world? Does the medium act as a link between the reader/viewer/listener/audience and the “real,” or does the medium come to define what is real? How do different academic discourses mediate and create new ontological narratives?

Please email short descriptions of your project (100-300 words) by February 17th, 2012 to disjunctions2012@gmail.com.

You can also click here for details on panel-specific Calls for Papers.  Please note any A/V needs you may have at that time.  We can obtain VCRs, DVDs, and projectors for laptops. Less standard equipment is possible (although not guaranteed) upon request.